Dr Rhiannon Evans

I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health based at DECIPHer (Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Public Health Interventions), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence. I am also an affiliated Senior Lecturer at CASCADE (Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre). The substantive focus of my research is the improvement of the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, in addition to the prevention of self-harm and suicide.

Career

2017- : Senior Lecturer, DECIPHer/CASCADE, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

2015 - 2017: Research Fellow, DECIPHer/CASCADE, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

2014 - 2015: Research Associate, DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

2013 - 2014: Public Health Tutor (Lecturer Epidemiology), School of Medicine, Cardiff University

Education and Qualifications

PhD in Social Sciences, Cardiff University

MSc Social Science Research Methods, Cardiff University

MSc Public Policy, University of Bristol

BA Hons Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford

Honours and awards

2017: Learned Society of Wales Dillwyn Medal for Outstanding Early Career Researcher Contribution in Social Sciences, Education and Business.

‘A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers – the WISE (Wellbeing in Secondary Education) project’ NIHR (£1.3m), 2015-2019.

‘Understanding the educational experiences and opinions, attainment, achievement and aspirations of looked after children in Wales’, Welsh Government (£30,957), 2015